Coelogyne cristata (??)

[Elena]

I have a couple of Coel plants from different sources. This one is labelled as Coel. cristata but I was always a little suspicious because it has huge pseudobulbs. The flowers just opened and the lip looks different to my other cristata so I'm wondering if this is a hybrid of some sort. There's also little/no scent but I'm guessing that might develop over the next few days.

Whatever it is I'm still loving the white flowers :drool:

 

[Ron-NY]

possibly Coel. intermedia

 

[NYEric]

Thats pretty.

 

[Elena]

Thanks guys!

Ron, I was hoping you'd reply because you seem to grow a few Coels. So you'd agree that it's not a cristata then?

 

[Ron-NY]

Here is my intermedia and cristata for comparison

cristata

 

[Ron-NY]

Elena, comparing them, I would say yours is cristata. Coel cristata has distinctive p-bulbs...can you take a pic of them?

 

[Elena]

Yup, you are right, mine looks like cristata in your picture. I thought the lip looked different to the cristata that was in bloom last spring but maybe I'm wrong.

Here's a picture of bulbs anyway. The plant on the right is the one that's flowering now, the bulbs are very large and elongated. The plant on the left is what I normally expect cristata to look like with round, grape-like bulbs

 

[Heather]

These are just beautiful! Nicely grown, guys!

 

[Ron-NY]

As cristasta starts to get mature the p-bulbs are elongated like yours. You can see one in my cristata picture.

 

[Elena]

Okay, cristata it is then

Thanks, heather!

 

[NYEric]

I really like Coel. Too bad a deal I made last year for a few fell thru.

 

[Elena]

Eric, don't you kill anything with bulbs? I think Coels are wonderful, I'm hoping I'll have enough space to grow more of them in the future.

 

[NYEric]

I had a chance to get about 10-12 of them for a good price so I was going to take the chance, then the sellor killed them for me! And I patiently await my refund!